Brexit or Independence? Scotland’s General Election
| Author | Rob Johns,Christopher Carman,Ailsa Henderson,Jac Larner |
| DOI | 10.1177/2041905820911745 |
| Published date | 01 March 2020 |
| Date | 01 March 2020 |
28POLITICAL INSIGHT•MARCH 2020
From the moment that the exit
poll predicted thumping wins
for the SNP in Scotland and the
Conservatives across the UK, the
conversation immediately turned to what
this meant for Scotland’s constitutional
future. Not that the conversation had ever
drifted far from that. Since 2014, the rst
Brexit or
Independence?
Scotland’s General
Election
2019 might have been the ‘Brexit election’ but in Scotland
independence remains the key political divide, as Rob Johns,
Ailsa Henderson, Christopher Carman and Jac Larner report.
question asked about any development
in Scottish politics is what it means for
independence.
Yet there is little point in interpreting
the results of elections in Scotland in terms
of support for independence. For one
thing, there is too much else going on in
any given campaign – the prominence
of Brexit in 2019 being a good example.
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